Saturday's 2021 NBIGP is LOADED. Official discussion thread.

high hopes wrote:

coachcommentsnicely wrote:

Brazier was the only one in the Julian group without an off day. Jenkins, Efraimson, and Engles all lacking.

Wish my team had an “off day” where one guy breaks the UK record in the 1k, one guy breaks the USA record in the 800, and one guy runs a 1500 pb.

Yeah, no reason to think any of them had an “off day,” really. Engels ran 1:46i recently but he’s run 1:44/3:34 PBs outdoors, so not sure why we should expect better than 3:36 form. Efraimson fared a bit better than she did in her recent 2:05 800. Jenkins didn’t win with a big kick like I predicted, but 8:19y isn’t shabby, maybe just where his speed is at now. And I’m sure Grice wishes he’d been 2nd or better, but Arop is legit and a U.K. NR is a solid day at the office.

All good points an observations. In terms of time these guys did run well. I guess I just expect the former NOP members to be more competitive in terms of place.

It's about time for Syd McL to start reading up on bobsledding

bored runner 147 wrote:

Hoare and Klecker both raced in Nike spikes, despite being On sponsored runners. They Just removed the swooshes from their spikes. Luckily for on, the broadcast didn’t zoom in on the shoes.

Would removing the swoosh material save a tiny bit of weight and give them a slight competitive advantage over Nike runners in the same spikes with the swooshes? I suppose it would matter more in longer races.

goaway wrote:

It's about time for Syd McL to start reading up on bobsledding

Sydney will be fine - but only if she leaves Kersee. He does not have the ability to bring out the best of his athletes.

NBC Sucks! wrote:

I imagine NBC will show the "highlights" within their brutal coverage. Nothing sucks the life out of an interesting meet like NBC.

They weren't too bad today but the NBC Olympic Gold productions are typically superb in quality thanks to Tim Hutchings, Steve Cram, Ovett, i.e. the British influence. You get long intros to each race, closeups of the runners.

I thought Des Linden did very well today, exceeded expectations IMHO. Too bad that NBC didn't have a closeup of her with Ato. They are superstars and deserve some respect.

Des Linden ruined the meet for me. Please never let her be a commentator at a meet again. She was awful and very hard to listen to.

escanlon wrote:

Des Linden ruined the meet for me. Please never let her be a commentator at a meet again. She was awful and very hard to listen to.

escanlon, You ruined this thread for me.

Sydney got dusted, let even before the first hurdle. She has no explosive power the 60MH is toatally not her event and that bs explanation about her dominant leg was a weak explanation for getting dusted.

What was nice to see is Hannah Cunliffe back in form and Gabby Thomas taking the 300M.

escanlon wrote:

Des Linden ruined the meet for me. Please never let her be a commentator at a meet again. She was awful and very hard to listen to.

Your take is the first negative I've seen on Des' 'performance'. And that's saying a lot as folks on here love to cut down our T & F announcers.